March 2015
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Wilson said. “I remember the days when you
had to plug the ambulance in to keep the
heater going and still had to go out and chip
the ice off the windshield before you could
go off on an emergency call.”
Dispatched originally from a switchboard
and using pagers to connect and then using
telephones to gather information, WCA Al-
Star EMS were only doing patient transfers
out of the WCA Hospital and other local
hospitals. After another ambulance service
went out of business, WCA AlStar EMS
grew their fleet and absorbed the 9-1-1 du-
ties.
Just three years after they started, WCA Al-
Star EMS took their expertise and service to
